Why Did Mickiewicz Believe into World Literature? Cover Image

Dlaczego Mickiewicz wierzył w literaturę światową?
Why Did Mickiewicz Believe into World Literature?

Weltliteratur between Intellectual History and Literary History

Author(s): Maciej Junkiert
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Weltliteratur; Johann Wolfgang Goethe; Adam Mickiewicz; Polish-German literary relations; intellectual history; Romanticism; history of philology; literary research

Summary/Abstract: The author of the paper attempts to reconsider the relations between Adam Mickiewicz and Weltliteratur and discloses the factors referring to the idea, formulated for the first time by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, that played special function in the Polish poet’s output. As based on Paris lectures, particularly the first five of them, the author insights into the way in which Mickiewicz takes advantage of world literature and discusses the context of Slavonic studies debate that took place at that time.

  • Issue Year: 113/2022
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 163-181
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish